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by runarberg 2mo ago
I am from Europe and I think this complaint is misplaced. Europe is currently speeding towards neo-liberalism at lightspeed and shows no sign of slowing down. The beneficiaries are primarily the CEOs and big corporations. The workers are ce
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by runarberg 2mo ago
I agree that it is unfair and perhaps even unnecessary to focus solely on Khan here. But I think it must be acknowledged he has caused (intentionally or not) a ton of damage to the state of education. He sparked a movement of “innovation” a
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by runarberg 2mo ago
Libraries do have archivists on staff. And I never believed libraries preserve all donations. I didn’t even mention donation, you did that. I honestly don‘t understand what kind of a mission you are on here, and why you feel the need to def
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by runarberg 2mo ago
I am going to have to see the numbers involved before I believe this. But even if it is true, it is still not a comparable behavior as I have argued above.
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by runarberg 2mo ago
No. You most definitely should not. Do not under any circumstances try to beat capitalists at their own game. The rules are always against you, and you will loose. The only winning move is not to play. Go to your local instrument library an
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by runarberg 2mo ago
The scale matters. It is disingenuous to just remove it from the equation as if it doesn’t. As does the intention matter. The AI companies are doing this because they want to profit off of it. They don’t have to do this, and the fact that t
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by runarberg 2mo ago
You were the one who brought public libraries into this conversation, in an attempt to legitimize this practice by AI companies. I assumed this attempt was you saying the two behaviors are comparable. I pushed back on that comparison. These
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by runarberg 2mo ago
No, but they are going to be intermixed in boxes from an old estate, or a used books store which is closing up, etc. > Most public libraries do not have professional archivists Most reasonably sized library systems do in fact. Even small
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by runarberg 2mo ago
This is a bad comparison. Public libraries are trying their best to preserve rare copies, despite being overwhelmed and underfunded. If they come across a rare copy chances are it will be preserved. When an AI company comes across a rare bo
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by runarberg 2mo ago
Both. I think they are just buying whatever they can get their hands on most of it is going to be junk, but one in a million is going to be a rare and valuable book which we didn’t even know existed. After scanning and destroying 10 million
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by runarberg 2mo ago
I assume public libraries know what they are doing and know which book they are destroying, that they keep an accurate inventory and hire professionals maintaining said inventory and marking which books can safely be destroyed. I assume no
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by runarberg 2mo ago
Public libraries staff professional archivist, they take careful inventory and know exactly which book they are destroying. AI companies buy boxes and boxes of books with unknown content staff anybody who can operate a scanner and have no i
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by runarberg 2mo ago
I am thinking about a long essay Icelandic author Þórbergur Þórðarson wrote to his pals abroad, and were left abroad. I am thinking about a photo book by an Indonesian naturalist who is famous on Bali, and took amazing photos of wildlife on
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by runarberg 2mo ago
Like I said, at this scale, there are no guarantees for anything. Very likely will there be a unique copy of an invaluable book or letter an the person feeding it to the scanner will not know and the book get destroyed. Like did Icelandic a
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by runarberg 2mo ago
To not destroy rare books.
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by runarberg 2mo ago
At this scale, there are no guarantees of anything. There very likely will be unique copies in there. If these were expert archivists a lot of damage could be prevented, but given the malice and indifference of AI companies, there very like
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by runarberg 2mo ago
I actually suspected it from the title, so I didn’t even open TFA. The advice in the title is a cop-out of someone who thinks writing with AI is fine actually, as long as you just don‘t paste the whole thing. In other words, it sounds like
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by runarberg 2mo ago
Sometimes the easy one to blame is also the right one to blame. But I disagree though. Blaming human nature is much much easier. It means there is nothing we can do except give up and live with it. In contrast, blaming the system means we c
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by runarberg 2mo ago
I think this mentality is giving up. We as a society may or may not value some thing over another. But instead of guessing what we value we should look at our behavior. And our behavior is that our governments give lax regulations and con
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by runarberg 2mo ago
Creating a throwaway account to espouse an extremely hateful and genocidal rhetoric is honestly a very weird behavior to do on a tech forum. And then you had AI write this short comment for you is even weirder. I probably should engage with
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by runarberg 2mo ago
I don‘t think you know what you are talking about. Or worse, you are so invested in creating an apologia for genocide that you come up with these excuses which have been shown to be false.
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by runarberg 2mo ago
This debate was pretty clearly settled after Live-aid. Food aid organizations were highly critical of Live-aid’s logistics, claimed it would not work because the food just gets looted by the armed factions who will use it to buy more weapon
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by runarberg 2mo ago
Say this figure is true. That is because so little food was allowed in. If food was abundant criminal gangs would not profit out of intercepting and hording it. However this 90% estimate is cherry picked. It is one report at one time, durin
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by runarberg 2mo ago
Distribution is only hard if you have to find a way to profit off of it. Hundreds food programs of all sizes can do it, from the UN food program, to states of all sizes with food assistance programs (i.e. almost every country), to a tiny
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by runarberg 2mo ago
In other words: Thousand monkeys with a thousand typewriters... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48231974
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by runarberg 2mo ago
There is a world, where Europe did not turn into a neo-liberal paradise as soon as the cold war ended. Where Europe straightened their labor rights (and kept their consumer protection). In that world, as people started waking up the fact th
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by runarberg 2mo ago
As much as I hate Amazon, I think there is a simpler explanation. Europe has been relaxing their consumer protection standards for the past two decades, and EU’s consumer protection enforcement against foreign tech companies is hardly ever
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by runarberg 2mo ago
100s of thousand? In that case I would label about a 100 by hand and train a supervised learning model. This problem has also been solved for 3 decades now.
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by runarberg 2mo ago
Is scraping and putting this in a structured format too inaccurate or expensive?
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by runarberg 2mo ago
I hate these X is the new bottleneck. Coding was never a bottleneck, except when it was, and when it was, it still is. Understanding is not a new bottleneck, except when it is, and when it is, it always was. Do other industries do this? Whe

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